Suleiman Khater

Suleiman Khater (1961-7 January 1986) was an Egyptian Army soldier who killed seven Israeli tourists and a police officer in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. He was called the "Hero of Sinai" by Ayatollah Khomeini, who named a street in Tehran, Iran after him.

Biography
Suleiman Khater was born in 1961 in Ekyad, al-Sharqia Governorate, Egypt. Khater witnessed the 8 April 1970 bombing of the Bahr el-Baqar primary school by the Israeli Air Force, which killed 46 children and wounded over 50, completely demolishing the school. Khater joined the Egyptian Army, and on 5 October 1985 he decided to avenge the Egyptian people's suffering by shooting Israeli tourists in the Sinai Peninsula. He killed seven tourists, including four children, and an Egyptian policeman before he was captured and court-martialed. On 7 January 1986, he hanged himself in his prison cell rather than spend life in prison with hard labor.